Mac vs PC
 

If you need to improve your system performance on the PC, then you need
to use all the tricks to acheive that. Like changing the Performance
properties of MY Computer to the 'best performance'

Have Virtual Cache Memory on a different drive than the OS disk drives

That may give you maybe .5 to 1.5 better performance

My .02

G

Wayne.B wrote:
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:59:36 -0400, " JimH" ask wrote:


Careful or John will accuse you of having a cheap AMD processor.


Or in the spirit of "leading by example" will have nothing to say at
all.

Mac vs PC
 

Wayne.B wrote:
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:22:26 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

About 15 secs for CS3 the first time, but when I closed it to try it a
second time, it opened in less than 5. Seems like there is a FNP
Licensing Service program that takes awhile to check out everything when
you first open the software, but it stays running in the background even
after shutting Photoshop down.

Perhaps but I think there's another reason also. I'd guess that a lot
of the I/O buffers used in the previous open are still laying around
untouched. Any time you can avoid an I/O by reusing a buffer cache it
saves a lot of time.

Yeah, that was going to be my 2nd guess.

Mac vs PC
 

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:28:28 -0800, Calif Bill penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

|
|"BAR" wrote in message
...
| Gene Kearns wrote:
| On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:28:51 -0500, John H. penned the following well
| considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:
|
|
| |When I first started teaching, we had Macs everywhere. I think they were
| |being given to the schools in the hopes the kids would get hooked.
| |Eventually the county in which I teach got the word and went with Dells,
| |for the most part. Now it's hard to find a Mac in the school.
|
| Yeah, great half-marketing strategy. Apple gave the schools tons of
| computers.... and they were used and appreciated.
|
| It didn't work because Apple did a poor job of placing computers in
| the workplace. Employers didn't see any advantage in students trained
| on computers and an operating system they didn't use. So..... Dell is
| usually the low bid and school systems buy cheap. We
| have thousands of computers at my school and they are all Dell....
|
|
| This is the converse of how UNIX took over software development.
|
|No it isn't. Bell Labs used to deliver Unix to the schools for the VAX
|systems for $250 copy fee. $25k to a commercial customer. So lots of
|programmers coming out of school were used to Unix and C.
|

And Pascal..... which came bundled with our Interactive Unix.... in
the late 70's and early 80's

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On Oct 31, 10:49 am, Gil wrote:
If you need to improve your system performance on the PC, then you need
to use all the tricks to acheive that. Like changing the Performance
properties of MY Computer to the 'best performance'

Have Virtual Cache Memory on a different drive than the OS disk drives

That may give you maybe .5 to 1.5 better performance

My .02

G



Wayne.B wrote:
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:59:36 -0400, " JimH" ask wrote:

Careful or John will accuse you of having a cheap AMD processor.

Or in the spirit of "leading by example" will have nothing to say at
all.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

But who really needs an extra .5?
My dad showed me a news story today about how we are falling behind
the world in Broadband technology, mostly related to speed. My
response, so what (did not say that to him;) I told him that it was my
opinion that if 1/4 of one percent of businesses in the states were
being held back by broadband speeds to any extent. Maybe some folks
could use a faster personal computer, but even then, mostly for
convienience. Uh, in a nutshell.;) Just my opinon folks, prove me
wrong, and I will be grateful, I am open minded, things change...

Mac vs PC
 

Just install Linux. 300% performance improvement immediately.

Gil wrote:
If you need to improve your system performance on the PC, then you need
to use all the tricks to acheive that. Like changing the Performance
properties of MY Computer to the 'best performance'

Have Virtual Cache Memory on a different drive than the OS disk drives

That may give you maybe .5 to 1.5 better performance

My .02

G

Wayne.B wrote:
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:59:36 -0400, " JimH" ask wrote:


Careful or John will accuse you of having a cheap AMD processor.


Or in the spirit of "leading by example" will have nothing to say at
all.

Mac vs PC
 

Gene Kearns wrote:
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:28:28 -0800, Calif Bill penned the following
well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

|
|"BAR" wrote in message
...
| Gene Kearns wrote:
| On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:28:51 -0500, John H. penned the following well
| considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:
|
|
| |When I first started teaching, we had Macs everywhere. I think they were
| |being given to the schools in the hopes the kids would get hooked.
| |Eventually the county in which I teach got the word and went with Dells,
| |for the most part. Now it's hard to find a Mac in the school.
|
| Yeah, great half-marketing strategy. Apple gave the schools tons of
| computers.... and they were used and appreciated.
|
| It didn't work because Apple did a poor job of placing computers in
| the workplace. Employers didn't see any advantage in students trained
| on computers and an operating system they didn't use. So..... Dell is
| usually the low bid and school systems buy cheap. We
| have thousands of computers at my school and they are all Dell....
|
|
| This is the converse of how UNIX took over software development.
|
|No it isn't. Bell Labs used to deliver Unix to the schools for the VAX
|systems for $250 copy fee. $25k to a commercial customer. So lots of
|programmers coming out of school were used to Unix and C.
|

And Pascal..... which came bundled with our Interactive Unix.... in
the late 70's and early 80's

Pascal, the crappiest language I ever had to deal with.